Google gobbling Fitbit is a major privacy risk
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has intervened to raise concerns about Google’s plan to scoop up the health and activity data of millions of Fitbit users — at a time when the company is under intense scrutiny over how extensively it tracks people online and for antitrust concerns.
Google confirmed its plan to acquire Fitbit last November, saying it would pay $7.35 per share for the wearable maker in an all-cash deal that valued Fitbit, and therefore the activity, health, sleep and location data it can hold on its more than 28M active users, at ~$2.1 billion.
Regulators are in the process of considering whether to allow the tech giant to gobble up all this data.
Source: Google gobbling Fitbit is a major privacy risk, warns EU data protection advisor | TechCrunch
